GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING

**DATES, LOCATIONS, AND TIMES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE**

**DATES, LOCATIONS, AND TIMES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE**

**AMENDED**

Dear Sisters, Brothers, and Comrades,

As per Toronto Local, please find below the eligible candidates in the upcoming 2026 – 2029 Toronto Local Executive Elections.

PRESIDENT:

Zach Avdelopoulos

Robby Jouhal

Mark Lubinski

Qaiser (Kaiser) Maroof

Stephen Myers

Gerard van Deelen

1^ST VICE-PRESIDENT:

Stacey Pritchard

Amit Verma

2^ND VICE –PRESIDENT:

Reno Borg

Richard LeGendre

3^rd VICE-PRESIDENT:

Rob Guglielmelli

Donna Leeder

Liz Parry

Inderjit Sidhu

5^TH VICE-PRESIDENT:

Rashmi Mehta

Bruno Rossi

ASSISTANT SECRETARY – TREASURER:

Sandro Petruzzelli

Victor Santhiapillai

RECORDING SECRETARY:

Baleswaran Kandasamy

Greg Krisa

E.S.S. GATEWAY WEST/INTL./TEO/AMF/NECF/CITYLINKS:

Furqan Ashraf

Sherice Douglas

Muhammad Imran

Greg MacDonald

E.S.S. S.C.L.P.P.:

Janet Kocur

Rana Siddiqui

E.S.S. GATEWAY EAST/WPDH:

Rajiv Joshi

Nikky Narewal

Sunny Philipose

E.S.S. WEST AREA WICKETS:

Celia Bellissimo

Nicky Jandu

Dave Khaper

E.S.S. WEST TRANSPORTATION:

Neil Bolen

Shaka Thomas

Only Members who are listed as Members in good standing shall be eligible to vote. The Elections committee asks that all Members confirm that you have already signed and submitted your Membership application, or immediately contact our Union Office in order to correct and update your Member status.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our Toronto Local Elections committee by email:

[email protected] or call the Elections Committee at (416) 249-6502. More information about our election process to follow.

We would like to take this opportunity to wish all the candidates luck in this upcoming election. In Solidarity,

Neeka Morris – Chairperson, [email protected] 2026 CUPW Toronto Local Executive Elections Committee

January 28, 2026

Her Worship Olivia Chow                                                                                                                        

Mayor, City of Toronto                                                                                                                                   

100 Queen Street W                                                                                                                             

Toronto, ON M5H 2N2

Dear Mayor Chow:

As President of the Toronto Local of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, I am writing to urge you to publicly oppose the federal government’s decision to eliminate door-to-door delivery by Canada Post in Toronto, and to ask that you use the authority of your office to advocate for the protection of this essential public service. This decision would undermine accessibility, public safety, and the effective use of urban space in Canada’s largest city.

Door-to-door delivery works in Toronto. Compact neighbourhoods and strong volumes of personalized mail, flyers, and parcels make it efficient and well suited to the city’s urban form. Maintaining door-to-door delivery is the right model for a modern, dense and walkable city.

Door-to-door delivery is, in every meaningful sense, a by-Canadians, for-Canadians public service. Toronto is Canada Post’s strongest revenue-generating market. Eliminating door-to-door delivery is a deliberate policy choice to redirect parcel and flyer revenue to private companies while weakening Canada Post as a viable public service. This choice reflects a failure of leadership.

This federal decision goes far beyond letter mail. It would force unwanted community mailboxes into Toronto neighbourhoods, despite longstanding opposition from residents.

Community mailboxes are incompatible with a dense, walkable city like Toronto. They clutter sidewalks, are regularly vandalized, obstruct pedestrian clearways, and create real barriers for seniors, people with disabilities, and residents with mobility challenges. These impacts fall directly on the City and on Torontonians, despite being driven by federal decisions made without community input.

The public safety costs of retreating from a regulated public delivery service are already visible on Toronto streets and will multiply as Canada Post no longer delivers to the door. Multiple unmarked delivery vans crowd the same blocks, routinely park illegally on sidewalks and in bike lanes, and force pedestrians into traffic. When Canada Post steps back, private couriers step in taking work and revenue that should be sustaining a publicly owned service. Once door-to-door delivery is eliminated, it will not return.

Community outreach by the Toronto Local and its allies has shown that once residents understand what is being taken away, opposition is immediate and widespread. I urge you to publicly stand with Toronto residents and Postal Workers, in opposing this decision, and to demand that the federal government halt the elimination of door-to-door delivery in Toronto.

I would welcome the opportunity to host you at a Toronto Letter Carrier Facility, where you could meet Postal Workers and see firsthand the service residents rely on every day. Toronto deserves a delivery system that strengthens public service, protects public space, and puts people before privatization.

Thank you for your attention to this important matter.                                          

Regards, 

Mark Lubinski                                                                                                                                      

President, Toronto Local,

Canadian Union of Postal Workers

[email protected];

office: 416 241 2385